Spent 6 weeks stuck on why my horror short's big scare flopped, turned out my sound mix was hiding the jump moment

David Palmer · 2026-09-23T22:00:10.124178+00:00

I kept blaming my writing and even reshot the hallway scene twice before a commenter pointed out my music swell was drowning out the actual scare, so I pulled the track down 8db at that one frame and the same clip scared people at a Chicago fest screening last month, has anyone else fixed a scene just by messing with the audio instead of the visuals?

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